YA Installation Mess

Monday 08 August 2005 4:47:14 pm

I am trying to install ezPublish. Like so many others, I'm not having any luck.

My web host won't let me directly chown to the "web" user. I'm trying to contact them to see what can be done.

According to a lot of posts on my host's forums, there is one other software package that has a similar issue (wanting to disable safe mode because of ownership priviliges). It's easily solvable there by chgrp to "web" and giving rwx priviliges to that group.

I've done this, and ezPublish did create a few files (the settings/override/*.php files spring to mind). So it can definitely write files. I don't know whether it can also use those files, since I still own index.php (which it can also access).

I'm guessing that's my problem.

Basically, no matter what I try, my site refuses to do anything except the ordinary admin interface. (Whatever kind of siteaccess I try, it takes me to the admin login screen).

Is this an example of ownership problems caused by safe_mode? Am I barking up the wrong tree completely? Can I fix this by turning safe_mode_gid On?

TIA,
James

Monday 08 August 2005 6:48:37 pm

I thought I'd add another little detail about the current version of the installation.

The only page on the site I seem able to access (once I log in as the web master) is the "My account." Everything else gives me either an Error #3 or #20 (mostly #3).

I figured this out when I finally managed to track down a hint in a comment on one of the pages about making sure to authorize Anonymous users to view parts of your site.